Event Log: Flu Season

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters
What: The event log for the Flu Season event
Where: All over the city
When: March 20th-March 30th
Warnings: Gross sneezing, sick people, and paranoia

It starts with a cough, a sneeze, a sore throat - something small and simple, easily ignored. But then your symptoms get worse. It's probably been awhile since you've been sick, that sort of thing doesn't usually happen here. You might be able to raid the shops for some tissues and tea before it gets too bad, and hopefully you've got a friend to help out until you get better. Surely it'll be over soon, right?

Until the fever sets in, and you start to understand why your friend is really there. They don't want to take care of you. They want to make sure this is the last anyone will ever see of you. They want to learn all your secrets. They want to steal your most precious possession. You know they're plotting against you, you know they're keeping something from you. What will you do to find out what it is?

Then, as the sickness fades, you realize it was all in your mind. Let's hope you didn't do or say anything too awful. But that friend of yours... they seem to have picked up your cough. Maybe you should help them out?

► This log covers March 20th-March 30th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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► If your paranoia ends in murder, please let us know here.

Comments

[aroundthecoroner]

[The monster jams its snout into the hole and tries snapping for something else to grab onto, but its shoulders are too big to fit far enough inside. It backs up and lowers itself onto its broken leg, and then reaches in with its good arm, raking around in the rubble and swinging wildly back and forth. It even tries to reach up and pry the larger pieces of the building loose, but without its other front leg, the leverage is too difficult.

It backs up for a few seconds, then rams itself, shoulder first, into the side of the collapsed building. When this doesn't accomplish much, it leans down to give Lance one last appraising look through the hole with its blue-light eyes. Then it throws its head back in a scream and wheels around to go back to its host.]

[lifetothefullest]

[It feels surreal, like he's in some sort of horror movie, and the Visitor makes various attempts to reach him, and all he can really do is huddle in the furthest corner and hope that nothing it does will be successful. If they are, he has the shield as a last resort, but it'd only buy him a few more second anyway.

So, instead, he just watches what the Visitor tries to do, somewhere between frozen in terror and just numbly calm; the only real move he makes is to cover his head when he feels the Visitor slam into the building, just in case any additional rubble falls, but it's just a showering of dust.

The screech is not welcome, because it's horrifying, but that it signals the Visitor's departure is an incredible relief. Or it would've been, anyway, if Lance were really capable of feeling such a thing at the moment, but he doesn't even truly believe it at first.

But as time passes--how much time? He isn't sure--and the Visitor doesn't return, he becomes more and more aware of what just happened and what his current situation is; his injuries are beginning to hurt again, he realizes how weak he feels, and he knows he needs to do something other than just hide in this already half-collapsed building.

Still, he can't bring himself to move for another few minutes, listening carefully to try to determine if the Visitor really is gone. Finally, he decides it is, and fights the returning creep of paranoia in order to send Kyna an emergency message.

Now he just has to wait.]